Carmen Popescu

List of John Benjamins publications for which Carmen Popescu plays a role.

Popescu, Carmen 2013 Chapter 10. Metacommunication as ritual: Contemporary Romanian poetryThe Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness, Sell, Roger D., Adam Borch and Inna Lindgren (eds.), pp. 147–166 | Article
Popescu, Carmen 2012 Chapter 17. Ironic palimpsests in the Romanian poetry of the ninetiesSpaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 251–264 | Chapter
No single theory of irony could be called universally relevant, as there are various ways of encoding ironic intent in a message. An unpredictable literary dynamics requires flexible concepts and sometimes eclectic approaches. Irony is primarily a communicative strategy. The challenge is to… read more
Popescu, Carmen 2011 Understanding ethnic humour in Romanian jokesThe Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 173–190 | Article
The study of ethnic humour is as popular in the world as ethnic jokes themselves. However, the topic has scarcely been addressed in the Romanian context, and certainly not from a linguistic perspective. This small-scale study represents an attempt to map the territory and understand the… read more